From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: sasha.levin@oracle.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chien.yen@oracle.com,
rds-devel@oss.oracle.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: rds: use correct size for max unacked packets and bytes
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 16:08:17 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150204.160817.1551916015584303515.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1422971760-8217-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com>
From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 08:55:58 -0500
> Max unacked packets/bytes is an int while sizeof(long) was used in the
> sysctl table.
>
> This means that when they were getting read we'd also leak kernel memory
> to userspace along with the timeout values.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Applied, thanks.
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2015-02-03 13:55 [PATCH] net: rds: use correct size for max unacked packets and bytes Sasha Levin
2015-02-05 0:08 ` David Miller [this message]
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